You might be correct, from an ethical perspective, but this isn’t the way US antitrust law works today.
If different rules should be applied to companies that are essential to modern life, such as classifying them as essential services, that should be a new law that’s explicit about the qualifications, gets debated, and has to reconcile the tradeoffs inherent in that classification. It should definitely not be something defined by a court of law (and it’s unlikely to be in this case).
If different rules should be applied to companies that are essential to modern life, such as classifying them as essential services, that should be a new law that’s explicit about the qualifications, gets debated, and has to reconcile the tradeoffs inherent in that classification. It should definitely not be something defined by a court of law (and it’s unlikely to be in this case).